The most abundant road sign type in America.

[thenetwork]

Just had an idle thought come into mind as I was driving  , what  Type of road sign is the most common in America?

Here are my top 3 Choices:

1. No Parking
2. STOP
3. Speed Limit xx.

I'd be curious to see if there is such a top 10 list for signs. What are your choices?

[hotdogPi]

What about One Way? (I would still put it below Stop).

Speed limit signs are farther down than #3.

[Hurricane Rex]

X road?

LG-TP260

[formulanone]

Stop signs have to be the most abundant. Every parking lot or suburban residential neighborhood has a bunch more of these than anything else, so that skews the numbers.

[kphoger]

Street name blades.

[Rothman]

NYSDOT state reference markers.

[froggie]

Street name blades.

This.  Since they now are placed in rural areas as well as suburban & urban.

[kphoger]

Street name blades.

This.  Since they now are placed in rural areas as well as suburban & urban.

But stop signs....  Gee....  Four of them at many intersections....

[froggie]

Counter-balanced by the sheer volume of rural intersections that lack any sort of stop sign.

BTW, I find it odd that you're trying to counter-argue your own submission to the thread.

[webny99]

Street name blades.

This.  Since they now are placed in rural areas as well as suburban & urban.

But stop signs....  Gee....  Four of them at many intersections....

But eight street blades. Also, no stop signs at traffic signals, unsignalized intersections, or roundabouts.

BTW, I find it odd that you're trying to counter-argue your own submission to the thread.

I think it might have been sarcasm... #uncertainty

[1995hoo]

Eight street blades? At most intersections I encounter, there are two of them. In exceptional circumstances there might be four. Only really huge intersections generally have more.

[webny99]

I'll do some shopping around in street view and see what I can find. I can think of at least two intersections off-hand that have eight blades, two per corner.

Four is probably the norm, but eight is certainly more common than two (at least at four-way intersections; obviously T-intersections only need two).

[hotdogPi]

I'll do some shopping around in street view and see what I can find. I can think of at least two intersections off-hand that have eight blades, two per corner.

Four is probably the norm, but eight is certainly more common than two (at least at four-way intersections; obviously T-intersections only need two).

It's never 8 here. Usually 1 (the minor one only) or 2.

[formulanone]

I'll do some shopping around in street view and see what I can find. I can think of at least two intersections off-hand that have eight blades, two per corner.

Four is probably the norm, but eight is certainly more common than two (at least at four-way intersections; obviously T-intersections only need two).

It's never 8 here. Usually 1 (the minor one only) or 2.

It varies in places, and depending on the type of interchange. There's plenty with none or just one, though I figure two blades to be the norm in most places.

[kphoger]

BTW, I find it odd that you're trying to counter-argue your own submission to the thread.

I think it might have been sarcasm... #uncertainty

No, I was just waffling on what I thought might be more common.

FWIW, a lot of those rural intersections with no stop signs also have no street blades.

[jon daly]

Street name blades.

This.  Since they now are placed in rural areas as well as suburban & urban.

But stop signs....  Gee....  Four of them at many intersections....

I have no idea if this is the right way to approach this, but I'd consider what road signage is most common in major cities. How many stop signs are there on the island of Manhattan?

[bzakharin]

Eight street blades? At most intersections I encounter, there are two of them. In exceptional circumstances there might be four. Only really huge intersections generally have more.

Around hear, on occasion, at signalized intersections, you'll get one per traffic light direction (4) plus a set or two of free standing ones. That makes 6-8.

But speed limit signs could outpace these because there is often one per direction per block, plus freeways have them and not (usually) blades or stop signs. Of course smaller residential neighborhoods without speed limit signs may counterbalance that.

[skluth]

I'll do some shopping around in street view and see what I can find. I can think of at least two intersections off-hand that have eight blades, two per corner.

Four is probably the norm, but eight is certainly more common than two (at least at four-way intersections; obviously T-intersections only need two).

It's never 8 here. Usually 1 (the minor one only) or 2.

It varies in places, and depending on the type of interchange. There's plenty with none or just one, though I figure two blades to be the norm in most places.

Most intersections here have only two. There might only one if it's just a cul-de-sac off the main street. Major intersections have none, but have a large sign for the cross-street hanging from the stoplight bar like here - https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7936511,-116.4951892,3a,75y,182.1h,83.33t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9sVit7aaPcvoW_YLOHnbSw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

[hotdogPi]

But speed limit signs could outpace these because there is often one per direction per block, plus freeways have them and not (usually) blades or stop signs. Of course smaller residential neighborhoods without speed limit signs may counterbalance that.

Speed limit signs are definitely less common than street blades.

[froggie]

BTW, I find it odd that you're trying to counter-argue your own submission to the thread.

I think it might have been sarcasm... #uncertainty

No, I was just waffling on what I thought might be more common.

FWIW, a lot of those rural intersections with no stop signs also have no street blades.

With the advent of E911 20-ish years ago, this is becoming less and less the case, as rural roads now have street names for E911 identification purposes (also helps with "rural free delivery" for mail).  Numerous states have street blades at virtually every rural corner now...some examples I'm familiar with include Iowa, Minnesota (5th largest road network in the nation), and Vermont.

[Michael]

NYSDOT state reference markers.

Even though I know you're joking, that makes me wonder if delineators would be #1.

[Mr. Matté]

But speed limit signs could outpace these because there is often one per direction per block, plus freeways have them and not (usually) blades or stop signs. Of course smaller residential neighborhoods without speed limit signs may counterbalance that.

Speed limit signs are definitely less common than street blades.

Maybe in the nation as a whole but at least around here, there seems to be a positive correlation between the frequency of speed limit signs and the difference between the road's design speed vs. signed speed (as in the lower the dumb limit, the more signs for said dumb limit).

[thenetwork]

I see where you are going on street blades, but I am not really counting street or blades, because there is no uniformity (different colors, sizes, fonts...) between them like what a STOP sign or a Speed Limit xx sign (albeit there are a few number combos, sizes and fonts, the signs' black-on-white appearance is generally the same.

Let me also add into my likely top-10 list:

- WRONG WAY
- DO NOT ENTER

I believe those are safe bets as well.

[GaryV]

In Michigan, "Road Work Ahead".   

[bing101]

Yield has to be common though for intersections.